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Jared Sandberg

Updated March 20, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Days after Rebecca Badger committed suicide last summer, ending her suffering from cancer and multiple sclerosis that had bound her to a wheelchair and left her legally blind, a memorial service was held for the 39-year-old mother of two.

About 60 friends gathered in a flower-lined garden that wraps around two park benches. They read poetry beneath elderly redwood trees stretching skyward over a cottage in the distance. "People were crying and hurting," recalls Debra Arck of the memorial service. "It was...